Although we focus on scaling laws, many of our points complement existing views on the societal risks of deploying large models [1]}, [2]}, [3]}, [4]}, [5]}, [6]}. However, similarly to [5]}, we do not consider here the costs of human labor involved in creating and annotating training data [8]}, the ethics of supply chains involved in creating the requisite hardware on which to train models [9]}, or the environmental costs of training models [1]}, [11]}, [12]}, [13]}. Scaling laws are likely to significantly impact these issues.
